Contend vs Argument - What's the difference?
contend | argument |
to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
* Bible, Deuteronomy ii. 9
* Shakespeare
to struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
* Dryden
to strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
* John Locke
* Dr H. More
A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
* Ray
A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
A process of reasoning.
* John Locke
(philosophy, logic) A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
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(mathematics) The independent variable of a function.
(programming) A value, or reference to a value, passed to a function.
* {{quote-web, date = 2011-07-20
, author = Edwin Mares
, title = Propositional Functions
, site = The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
, url = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/propositional-function
, accessdate = 2012-07-15 }}
(programming) A parameter in a function definition; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
(linguistics) Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
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(astronomy) The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends.
The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.
* Shakespeare
* Jeffrey
* Milton
Matter for question; business in hand.
* Shakespeare
As a verb contend
is to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.As a noun argument is
proof, reason, point.contend
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)- The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle.
- For never two such kingdoms did contend without much fall of blood.
- You sit above, and see vain men below / Contend for what you only can bestow.
- The question which our author would contend for.
- Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial.
Synonyms
* struggle, fight, combat, vie, strive, oppose, emulate, contest, litigate, dispute, debateExternal links
* *argument
English
Noun
(en noun)- There is no more palpable and convincing argument of the existence of a Deity.
- The argument is not about things, but names.
- In ‘The Critic of Arguments’ (1892), Peirce adopts a notion that is even closer to that of a propositional function. There he develops the concept of the ‘rhema’. He says the rhema is like a relative term, but it is not a term. It contains a copula, that is, when joined to the correct number of arguments it produces an assertion. For example, ‘__ is bought by __ from __ for __’ is a four-place rhema. Applying it to four objects a'', ''b'', ''c'', and ''d'' produces the assertion that ''a'' is bought by ''b'' from ''c'' for ''d (ibid. 420).
- Parameters are like labeled fillable blanks used to define a function whereas arguments are passed to a function when calling it, filling in those blanks.
- In numerous works over the past two decades, beginning with the pioneering work of Gruber (1965), Fillmore (1968a), and Jackendoff (1972), it has been argued that each Argument' (i.e. Subject or Complement) of a Predicate bears a particular ''thematic role'' (alias ''theta-role'', or ''θ-role'' to its Predicate), and that the set of ''thematic functions'' which ' Arguments can fulfil are drawn from a highly restricted, finite, universal set.
- The altitude is the argument of the refraction.
- You and love are still my argument .
- the abstract or argument of the piece
- [shields] with boastful argument portrayed
- Sheathed their swords for lack of argument .